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To ALL WHoM 1T MAY CONGERN:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM QUAIL, of the city and county of New York, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Portable Bodkin and Tweezers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

i* invention relates to a. new and useful device, whereby certain instruments -which are in`constant use by printers are combined andrendered portable, and the invention consists in providing a case in which the instruments are secured when not in immediate use, and whereby they are rendered safe and portable for the pocket or otherwise.

Figure 1 represents `the case, with the bodkin and tweezers exposed or extended from the case, and

Figure 2 shows them within the ca-se, the view being a longitudinal section..

Similar letters of reference indicate like partsfl It is Well known that the long, pointed a-wl, ,marked a, (called u bodkin by printers,) is an indispensable article in adjusting the lines in type-setting, and that the tweezers ornippers, which inthe drawing are marked c, are not less useful in picking out defective or wrongly-set type. From the peculiar form of these instruments it has never been found practicable to carry them in the pocket, and thus preserve them,but they are usually left lying around loose, andconsequently they frequently get lost, und thereby subject the printer to much trouble and expense. By my dcvice'the two instruments are rendered as portable in the pocket as a pocketknife or pencil. i

To accomplish this I provide a, tubular case, marked B, whichl has a screw-thread cut a short distance within each end, While the bodkin and tweezers have each a head, with screvr-threads upon them, which fit the case, so that when they are reversed and screwed in they occupy the `case `as seen in fig. 2, the points of each being thus perfectly protected, while they are as easily and conveniently carried in the pocket as a small pencilcase, as seen in iig. 1. The instruments are screw-ed .into the case, in which vposition theyor either of them may be used, the case serving as a handie.

I donut confine myself to this particular method of confining the instruments in the case; I am aware that it'may be done without the screw-threads; but what I claim', aid desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination and arrangement of the case B with the bodkin .a and .the .tweezers c, substantially as described and for the purposes set .forrthtA WILLIAM QUAIL.

Witnesses:

WM. F. McNAMARA, ALEX. F. ROBERTS. 

